The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1887-04-17
DANGERS OF VACCINATION.
Is the System of Jenner a Great
Medical Mistake and DelusiOn2

Moncure u. conway writes from Lon
don to the Cincinnati Commercial: There
is steadily arising in this country re-
bellion against the compulsory vaccina-
ton law, which is not unlikely to ser
iously involve the general faith in Jen-
ner's discovery. By prosecutions and
punishments of some respectable and
intelligent families the authorities have
been the means OF constituting an anti
vaccination society, with two news
papers Enquirer and Aati Vaccinator.)
and the country is flooded with facts
resting on high authority which cannot
fail presently to produce panic. Peter
Taylor, NJ. P, who was one of the par
liamentary commission which nine
years ago considered the subject and
| signed the unanimous report in favor of
compulsory vaccination, has been con-
| WINGED that he was in error. and on a'bill
| Just brought in by the government to
extend compulsion to ireland, made
statement which convinced others of
| the impolicy of the law-notably Prof.
| Fawcett. John Bright has already OPP
posed compulsion, and Gladstone has
expressed himself as suspicious of the
! law. Since Mr. Taylor made his speech
on the subject, have had an opportun-
| ity of conversing with him. He in
| formed me that the bill will be siren
ously fought on going into committee,
and he was good enough to let me freely
examine the facts and evidences on
which he means to resist the new bill
and urge repeal of that existing 1t is
hardly possible that such facts as the
subjoined, selected from larger mass,
can fail to excite alarm.
DR.. W. ]. Collins, for twelve years
vaccine physician in Edinburg and Lon
don, writes: 1T l had the desire to
describe one-third of the victims ruined
by vaccination the blood would stand
still in your veins" DR.. Stowell, with
still longer experience, declares vaccina-
ton mot only an illusion, but curse
to humanity" DR.. Hitchman, of Liver
pool, says: 81 haYe seen hundreds OF
children killed by vaccination" The
Medical Times and Gazette declares that
consumption has widely spread since
the introduction of vaccination" The
physician of the great London Cancer
Hospital declares that many OF the
cases of cancer Viii, b have come under
treatment in that institution have orlgl-
mated with vaccination. DR.. Rlcord, g
distinguished French surgeon, says
AT first l repealed the idea that syphilis
could be transmitted by vaccination
The appearance of facts appearing more
and more confrmative, l accepted The
possibility of this mode OF transmission
Il ought TO say with reserve, even with
repugnance. But to-day l hesitate NJ
more to proclaim this reality" DR.
Hutchinson has testified before parlia
mentary commission that out of thir
teen children whom he vaccinated will
lymph from a public vaccination insti
, tuition, eleven exhibited the primary
sore OF syphilitic eontagion two month!
after. DR.. Brudenell Carter declare
that "a large proportion of the cases o
apparently inherited syphilis are il
reality VAGINAL" and that 1.-THE syphili
in these cases does not show itself unit
the age of from eight to ten years." DR.
Thomas Wilson, officer of health to th
Axiom union, writes to the Lancet (ant
it is significant that so conservative III
organ should have printed his commun
ication): 1T is useless to deny tina
vaccination by human lymph involve
danger of scrofulous, syphilitic and cry
sipelatous incubation" DR.. Edwar,
Ballard, medical inspector of the locs
| UO6lQy Ouc VI SAO AAoo1 III
portant medical Offices in the country
wrote q pamphlet of the utmost impor
tance on vaccination. The government
when appointing him, may not hay
known of this pamphlet, and since b
+ was made inspector his essay has sud
denly disappeared from all book-shops
Diligent search for copy failed to I'm
one except in the British museum
Speaking of some case at Acqui, Italy
!. DR.. Ballard says: Put the case ho'
We will, we can not escape the inferenc
t that the child Chiabera had become cor
stitutionally syphilitic at the time whe
f the vaccination was performed. Forty
six other children were vaceinated fror
him. Of these thirty-nine became al
fected with syphilis. Among thes
thirty-nine was Louisa ManZone; fror
her seventeen other children we've vac
cinated, of whom seven became spyhi
iticS She died; the nurse who suckle
her got ulcers in the breast, and frol
the various other children who wei
syphihzed the disease spread by conta
} glon to eighteen mothers and nurse
and to their other children" In OctC
Der, 1855, NJ. Marone got some lymph
the tubes from Compobasso. a larg
number were vaccinated, OF whel
a tHCubN LII UdOSC Ed4NAeo W. AA<-N "
. to be healthy, were infected with syph
lis. The nurses" said Dr.. BaIlarC
"were infected in their turn with indu
ated chancres On the breast.
The mothers impaired the disease to Il
:. fathers. One of the twenty three il
IL feeted served for new vaccination
eleFen infants were contaminated, an
y tnev infected others. Several Of Ii
children died Eleven nurses infecte
by the vaccinated children infected
t;eir turn other children which had NJ
been Yeccinated. Several Of the col
terminated women we're confined eith'
prematurely or at full term, OF childre
dead or living. but in every case bearir
marks of congenital syphilis DIR. Bs
lard further says that latent syphilit
faint may be reused into activity
vaccination. The effort to suppress th
4 pamphlet will be in vain. When {!
,. bill to extend compulsory vaccination
Ireland is fought, the government "
have TO meet these statements, made
one of its chief medical officers,
One OF the most remarkable facts
= that since vaccination was made COL
q pulsorv the death-rate by smallpox
81 London has increased; in 1888, befo
49,